Spotting the N. Y. Operators
By IRVING SHERMAN
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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW ·
California here we come! New York
operators are talking about beating a
track to a land of sunnie r clime, after a
cold spell that froze the te ars on the men
a s they pocketed the weekly minuse s,
and machines di d a Ja ck Fros t a s slugs
rolled in and profits rolled out. Casualty
of the week was Bill Peek, who froze to
a gardenia and had to be pried loose .
At a late hour he was demanding a
s howdown and claimed he had been
framed . -What is an icicle, Bill?
It's not Nat Finkels tein anymore , but
Franklin now boys. Seems that Nat, who
has a cigarette route in Manhattan and
points north, heard of a guy named Ben-
jamin Franklin and how Franklin saved
hi s pennies and married his boss's girl.
So Nat ups and s ees a judge and that's
how it happened! Remember us when
you get that million, Nat.
Miss Kus hner, Bob Grenner's secre-
tary, has gone and done it. The lucky
man is hiding out, we hear, what with
rivals thick and Gabel's New York office
set adrift. Lots of luck, Miss Kushner;· but
tell that guy we ain't speakin' .
Jack Rosenthal, an official of the In-
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, and well-known to the phono-
graph tra~e , has opened a repair ser-
vice at 678 Morris Avenue, Bronx, New
York.
All s ympathy to Christopher Metz of
the Automatic Music Operators' Associa-
tion, whose brother, John, met untimely
death in an automobile accident.
Al Blendow who used to be with East
Coas t Phonograph Distributors, headed
by Sam Kressberg, now is domiciled
with Al Rabkin at Mutoscope on West
34th Street. Al is practically back where
he started, for he used to be with Capi-
tol Automatic which is in the same
building.
Music operators will be glad to learn
that Bobby Blessing, lively eyeful of
AMOA is back from Atlanjic City where
s he had gone to ref upet ate from an at-
tack of- sinus . Bobby feels · line, but cut
out ringing up, fellers . The gal works
there and it ain't private!
The CMA is off with a bang in the
campaign to make its Third Annual Din-
ner and Dance at the HMet Pennsyl-
vania, the evening of March 11 , one of
the most successful affairs ever held.
Members are to be taxed with tickets
according to the number of machines
they have lis ted. The cardboards are
five dollars a try. You gotta bring your
own wife and no kiddin'. Rates for in-
clusion in the so.Qve nir journal are cen-
!er s pread, two pages, $2,500; inside
cover, $1,350; single page , $1 ,000; one
quarter of a page, $300. The back cover
will go for a measly $1500; inside back
cove r, $1 ,250; one half page, $550 and
one-eighth of a page, $175. Fell e rs , who
said there was a depre ssion on?
Rookie to CMA ranks is Raymond Har-
rison of the Automatic Cigarette Service
of the Bronx who s tems from a line of
highly successful coin machine opera-
tors in Eas tern territory. Harrison is an
aggressive little chap who has come to
see that if y ou want to get places in the
coin machine business, a trade a ssocia-
tion is the bes t tonic you can have .
"Watch my s team. I'm going to go
places now ," Harrison confides.
They called the CMA meeting to order
at 9:25 p.m. At 9:40, Paul Glimas, Man-
hattan operator called point of order.
"[ move we adjourn," he called. At the
roar that was heard, Glimas explained,
"No one can say I don 't make myself
heard at the se meetings!" When order
was res tored, they could see Glimas sit-
ting there, satisfi e d at his chore.
Irving Silverman, Metro Cigarette Ser-
vice, is another rookie to CMA ranks
who looks like promising material. Sil-
verman took an active part in discus-
sions at the last meeting, and is de-
termined to make the Association one of
the strongest in the industry. "I've been
outside of it and I want to tell you, it's
tough," he said. "The stronger the CMA,
the better for all cigarette operators," is
his belief.
Word has reached this scribe that
Fred Osterman who was with Kings
Country Cigarette Service, has passed
away. O s terman was still a young man
and had made many friends in the
trade. All join his family and kin in
mourning his untimely end.
Charles T. Jaffa of Stewart & McGuire
returned from his trip to the West in
time for the showing of the new Stewart
candy machine .
Sol Pincus, of Cigarette Service, con-
fided at the CMA meeting the Zeko pic-
tures are still "hot" so far as interest is
concerned. Pincus has been getting a lot
of free publicity because of the nature
of these premiums. He is making them
up in color now and getting requests
from Los Angeles and similar, distant
points.
Jackson Bloom maintains that he gets
more of a kick out of being jus t a plain
member of the CMA than he did when
he w a s preside nt and had all the arrows
aimed in hi s direction. "When you get
to the top," Bloom explained, "they think
it's a sign that you signed up for a tar-
get. I'd rather take a few pot shots my-
self than sit for a picture with my poise
riddled." As a Stewart & McGuire di s-
tributor Bloom hasn 't done badly at all.
"But then ," explain other operators,
"he 's a college man"- as if they teach
how to find spots at the Alma Mater.
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